Renowned Indian Screenwriting teacher Ashwini Malik conducts Screenwriting Workshop in Karachi
Karachi, November
6, 2018: Pakistan International Film Festival under the banner of Karachi Film
Society organized a hands-on intensive screen writing workshops here in the
metropolitan city for aspiring writers. The four-day workshop which started
from November 4, 2018 is being conducted by the renowned Indian screenwriting
teacher, screenwriter, script consultant and an independent filmmaker Ashwini
Malik.
Film is a
highly collaborative medium and undoubtedly the most vital part of a film is
the screenplay, which is the key to any film’s box office success. Globally,
screenwriter’s role in film making is considered as important as that of the
director. Keeping in mind the dire need to develop and train local
screenwriting resources, KFS has developed this intensive screenwriting
workshops. The workshop for fresh writers is developed in two stages. The first
stage is to impart the essential principles of the art and craft of
screenwriting to the participants, and later they will be tasked to develop a
screenplay under mentorship during the workshop.
The
workshops also discussed the uniqueness of storytelling in the subcontinent and
how Indian and Pakistani films are different in their approach from the Western
models.
Ashwini Malik is a screenwriting teacher,
screenwriter, script consultant and an independent filmmaker. After graduating
from Film & Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune in 1994, he began
his career by writing and directing TV shows. He has been teaching
screenwriting since 2004, at FTII, Pune and Whistling Woods International,
Mumbai. He regularly conducts workshops in India and abroad, and has been a
mentor at several script labs including New Voices Fellowship for Screenwriters
(Asia Society), Mumbai Mantra CineRise Screenwriting Programme, the MAISHA film
labs in East Africa, NFDC’s script development workshop and the Indo-German
Screenwriting programme. His screenwriting credits include I Am, Road, Movie
and Sorry Bhai.
Karachi Film Society is a nonprofit organization and
parent body of Pakistan International Film Festival (PIFF) founded by Ms.
Sultana Siddiqui, founder and president of HUM Network Ltd and recipient of
President’s Pride of Performance Award. The founding members of KFS include Dr
Ishrat Husain (former Governor State Bank of Pakistan), Ms Ameena Saiyid (CEO
OUP), Senator (r) Javed Jabbar (writer/producer, former Information Minister),
Mr Sirajuddin Aziz (CEO Habib Metropolitan Bank), Mr Jamil Baig (CEO Nueplex
Cinemas), Ms Ronak Lakhani (Chairperson SOP), Ms Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy (Oscar
winning director/producer) and Ms. Sayeeda Leghari (Managing
Director/Chairperson, Pepsi Sukkur Beverages (Pvt Ltd.). The primary goal of
Karachi Film Society is to improve access of the people in innovation and
excellence in different categories and genres of cinema and films to highlight
the unique scope of this mass medium.
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